A long interview with Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhFS-dpOjjI&t=27s

Russian economy

i find it diddicultto understand. John Helmer suggests that Putin reined in some of the oligarchs.https://johnhelmer.net/the-hidden-hand-of-russian-oligarch-capital-is-a-british-lawyers-claw/#more-92230 And one from Gilbert Doctorow https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/08/05/jeffrey-sachs-is-back-to-selling-snake-oil/

An essay on Mike Davis by Nelson Lichtenstein

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/mike-davis-marxism-capitalism-dystopia?fbclid=IwY2xjawL-cQxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFyeDg3M1R1aFZtR09Yaks0AR7V1OyJ6osLn_F7mI8CyOwdntp_qanGNvQota1OVEYgGAVIFW9sh-wfL9S2EQ_aem_hvDfV17hB7WOmjE-aqgsIA

Finishing off Ukraine from Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8E2HCja58

Jack Morava RIP

He passed away on August First.I met Jack and Lili in TIFR in 1972 while he was on his way back to USA after visiting Steklov institute. He gave a course on Morava K-Theory in Bombay attended by me and M.S. Raghunathan and later visited ISI, Kolkata. I visited Jack and Lili in Kolkata and later a few times in Baltimore and Chalottville some times with my family. Lili worked in Indiana while I visited the university during 1979-80. At that time I did not know driving and Lili regularly took us shopping and Jack used to visit her there. Both have been very dear friends for a long time. I have been regularly in touch with him by gmail and I will miss him. A memory of Jack Morava: He was visiting ISI Kolkata. I think he met an agricultural scientist from ISI in Moscow and I think that is how he ended up visiting ISI. We had a wonderful time for a week or so and the agricultural scientist arranged a musical concert in house. The lady who sang was not a professional singer I think but she was transformed when she started singing. When the time came to leave, Jack and Lili came to Howrah station to see me off. Jack was an affectionate chap and I was afraid he would hug me at the station. At the last moment I stood a yard away from him and stretched my hand to say good bye. But it did not help. He gave big hug anyway. I got into the train and reached my berth and met a fellow traveller introduced myself. He said he was a Mukherjee, a high class brahmin.The warmth of Jack and Lili was washed away by Shri Mukherjee. in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Morava https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morava_K-theory

Alastair Crooke update at Dialogue Works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYv-ZMKkGCo

Indian nationhood, vernacular imagination

https://scroll.in/article/1084837/literature-icons-history-how-indian-nationhood-was-built-through-local-languages?fbclid=IwY2xjawL2NLVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHv-9EJKzn78jEewIMizcDUVpS1kljeFk5q_DUuinhcnbqX-k60QUfbhzO5Om_aem_vEC8Mwvt7rY0y31WeEYINA

The money weapon

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/coffee-break-armed-madhouse-the-money-weapon.html

Jacques Baud on the Ukraine situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOKAEuIFag

Trump mystique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4IwLYSmrI